AMERICANALMANAC (Ken Jacobs) - Second American contracts Ebola in Congo while working for Samaritan's Purse
A second American citizen has tested positive for Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the CDC announced Friday, this time a logistics worker deployed with the Christian relief organization Samaritan's Purse in the outbreak's epicenter of Ituri province. The patient, who has not been publicly identified, had been working out of Bunia, the […] The post Second American contracts Ebola in Congo while working for Samaritan's Purse appeared first on American Almanac .
A second American citizen has tested positive for Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the CDC announced Friday, this time a logistics worker deployed with the Christian relief organization Samaritan's Purse in the outbreak's epicenter of Ituri province. The patient, who has not been publicly identified, had been working out of Bunia, the provincial capital, and was not directly involved in treating Ebola victims. The case marks another grim milestone in a crisis that has now produced 1,926 confirmed infections and 702 deaths, according to DRC health officials. It also raises hard questions about the true scale of an outbreak that the World Health Organization's own emergencies director says may be four times larger than…Open